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  • Here's hoping this series has more family moments like this ... along with the expected plot-driving action scenes.

    What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • And, of course, the plot-driving question of whether the future is fixed was primary in the book and looks to be headed that way in the TV show.

    What Did You Think of the Series Premiere of FlashForward? 2009

  • Lost amid the recent rash of high-profile celebrity deaths was the passing last week of Shell Kepler, the actress who portrayed plot-driving gossip Amy Vining on General Hospital from 1979-2002.

    "General Hospital" Sadness: Remembering Nurse Amy Vining 2008

  • To keep hype going through the holidays, SCEA has handed out a new batch of screens of Gamespot writes today that Ready At Dawn's original Kratos adventure for the PlayStation Portable, in which it's expected he'll stab thousands of things and hopefully engage in a portable threesome, along with some plot-driving something-or-other, is still quite some time off.

    Kotaku 2009

  • If you're going to have a character make a plot-driving choice between two and only two alternatives, at least have it be Sophie's Choice.

    Warren Ellis 2009

  • 3. Do I have a lot of scenes where my protag is learning plot-driving information by talking to people she knows?

    Archive 2010-06-01 Janice Hardy 2010

  • Everyone had something to do (even Lily, Rufus, and Jenny got a decent amount of screen time, if not a lot of plot-driving activity), and there were some really funny moments (I loved Lily’s “You didn’t really think they wanted to spend five hours playing board games with us, did you?” line).

    'Gossip Girl' recap: Blair dumps Serena -- for good? | EW.com 2009

  • No it wasn’t, probably because privilege was too obviously ‘the bad guy’ in that movie, and because there was no plot-driving violence or existential battle between good and evil.

    Think Progress » Steele on serving as RNC chair: God has ‘placed me here for a reason.’ 2010

  • Howells, sensing creative stasis, had tried to cheer Clemens on in January, applauding the rather thin plot-driving idea—time-travel—that his friend had recently shared with him: That notion of yours about the Hartford man waking up in King Arthur’s time is capital.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Howells, sensing creative stasis, had tried to cheer Clemens on in January, applauding the rather thin plot-driving idea—time-travel—that his friend had recently shared with him: That notion of yours about the Hartford man waking up in King Arthur’s time is capital.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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